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The museum on the roof of the world : art, politics, and the representation of Tibet /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harris, Clare
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012
Series:Buddhism and modernity.
Subjects:
Art, Tibetan > Appreciation > History.
Art, Tibetan > Museums > History.
Tantric-Buddhist art > Appreciation > History.
Tibet Region > Museums > History.
Xizang bo wu guan > History.
Tibet Museum (Dharmsāla, India) > History.
Table of Contents:
  • The Tibet Museum in the West
  • The Younghusband mission and Tibetan art
  • Picturing Tibet for the Imperial Archive
  • Photography and the politics of memory
  • The Tibet Museum in exile
  • The Tibet Museum in Lhasa
  • The invention of Tibetan contemporary art
  • The Buddha goes global.